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Haiti Earthquake Update: 2 months later
This post is part of a week-long series from Engineering World Health, an international health NGO located in Durham, NC. A team of three biomedical engineers and technicians from EWH will be in Haiti from March 14 to 21 to assess and repair medical equipment at five clinics in the Port-au-Prince area. The posts will be written by two of the EWH team members, Lora Perry and Justin Cooper, and will include daily news, photos, and insights from Haiti regarding the state of health care two months after the earthquake.
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What’s with all the earthquakes?
It started with the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in January. Since then, it seems every few days we receive news of yet another strong quake somewhere else in the world: Japan, Chile, Indonesia and just this past weekend, Turkey. Some have latched on to these stories as evidence that the end of the world is near. So, what’s the deal with all the quakes? Is something out of the ordinary happening?
The answer is no. There is in fact no increase in earthquakes this year, there’s only more media coverage around it.
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